Alan Summers, Recipient of the Japan Times Award (2002), haibun editor (Blithe Spirit) and co-founder of Call of the Page, a UK provider of literature, education & literacy projects, often based around the Japanese genres.
For events & workshops contact us through our Call of the Page website: Call of the Page.

Online internet courses by Call of the Page

Are you interested in a Call of the Page course? We run courses on haiku;tanka; tanka stories/prose; haibun; shahai; and other genres.

Please email Karen or Alan at our joint email address: admin@callofthepage.org
We will let you know more about these courses.

Call of the Page (Alan & Karen)

Friday, September 09, 2016

Expert One to One Individual feedback on your haiku

This type of feedback can be incredibly useful when you want fast, friendly, expert advice! Whether you want to get a magazine submission just right, or suggestions on a poem or group of poems for a competition, we can help.Alan is both a former editor of three haikai genre magazines, and a former regular competition judge. And if you have a deadline that is right around the corner, we can help, with over 25 years experience.The feedback is also useful if you want to spend a longer amount of time getting a particularly important submission just right, one that may be groundbreaking, where you have pushed yourself to a new level.Sometimes we all need a Manuscript Doctor or an "Outside Editor"We can also give advice, feedback, and wide-ranging suggestions on a collection you are putting together, whether haiku, or tanka, or haibun, or tanka stories (aka tanka prose). Or if you are considering combining those genres this means you get that extra support. Your collection is as important to us as it is to you.This is also ideal if you can't wait until the next Call of the Page intermediate/improver group course comes around for your particular genre, as they can sell out quickly. This one to one feedback offer may suit you in between our courses or as a regular litmus test to ensure you are developing a formidable body of work over the year.

Alan Summers is available for one-to-one tuition by email. These one-to-one sessions can be tailored to suit you. One-to-one students can send as little or as much work as they like at any time.

Feedback bookings start with 90 minutes of Alan's time, and can be bought in 45 minute units after the first session. Any time not used each time rolls over so it can be used for the participant's next session.

Also if you wish to book a block of hours (for instance for advice/help with editing/creating a manuscript you are working on, and want the best for your collection) then price reductions start with four hour bookings.

Call of the Page (formerly known as With Words) as Karen Hoy & Alan Summers) has been running online courses in haiku (and other related genres) since June 2009, and in-person workshops at various venues since 1999.

Alan regularly has participants on his courses from around the world including USA; Canada; New Zealand; Australia; Singapore; Europe; U.K.; India etc…

"Thank you for your feed back. You make things seem so clear ... So enjoyed reading the others' work too." MB

"I have enjoyed the course tremendously and know that I will return to Alan's notes frequently as I continue to write tanka." J

“This course has been a really great experience for me. I have absorbed all the feedback and it has had an important impact on my writing. I agree with everything Alan has said regarding my haiku and it is amazing that Alan has put his finger on every little shade and "flaw" of my haiku in such a detailed way.” ML

“Trying to distil very personal moments and memories into a few lines is something I have never attempted before, in fact never thought of before - and for that I thank you.” AS

“Hi Alan - thanks so much for this … I really had no idea there was so much to this art, and I'm completely fascinated. Your comments are extremely perceptive.” MK

Alan is Director/Lead Tutor of With Words, an international provider of literature, education and literacy projects, and online workshops based around the Japanese genres.

He is the editor of the forthcoming publication:

Writing Poetry: the haiku way(2017)

He has been an expert on English-language haiku (and other Haikai Literature) for 25 years. Alan is a Recipient of the Japan Times Award (2002) for both haiku and renku, and the Ritsumeikan University of Kyoto Peace Museum Award for haiku (1998).

Alan is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet regularly a Teaching Artist at the USA-based Poetry Barn organisation for Haiku and Tanka, and also for Haibun (later in 2013).

Japanese Television featured him in Europe meets Japan - Alan's Haiku Journey

He is a founding editor for Haijinx (haiku with humor), and Bones Journal (contemporary haiku): http://www.bonesjournal.com/, and Haiku/Haibun Special Feature Editor, Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.

Alan has been:

• General Secretary of the British Haiku Society (1998-2000)

• Panel of Judges: The Biennial Sasakawa Prize for Original Contributions in the Field of Haikai (Sasakawa Foundation U.K. and British Haiku Society)

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I'm President of the United Haiku and Tanka Society; a Japan Times award-winning writer; Pushcart Prize nominated poet; also co-founder of Call of the Page which promotes literacy and literature events.